Many bars are just happy with smoking ban

The new Minister of rookwet Klink seems only to sow discontent. But not everyone oh and woe.

Renderings protest pub bosses, ashtray-back-to-table actions, smoke inspectors to be photographed and moan about lost sales. It seems as if the Dutch cafe at the smoking ban goes by Minister Ab Klink.

Especially the little ones

But that's not true, says a spokesman for Royal Dutch Hotel Association. They are mainly small, according to him you hear. The vast majority of the outlet's a good life with the anti-smoking policy. "It's just a small group of drum stores. A thousand cafe-owners in rebellion against the ban. The remaining 11,000 are pleased with the state of affairs. "

The biggest pub landlord of the Netherlands, Sjoerd Kooistra, is a strong supporter of banning smoking. 'Right, "he said in the catering trade Misset Horeca. Even if that is the end of an unknown number of businesses beginning.

"Such a reorganization of the industry is only healthy. New, beautiful, big concepts are good, but many little ones will not survive. "

Yet many smaller owners also welcome the anti-smoking policy. Assistant manager Lisette Bruinsma of Cobalt cafe in Amsterdam for example. "It is not as stuffy inside and it stinks less. And in terms of turnover, we find no difference. "

Also Amsterdam multiannual The cafe has nothing to complain. Manager Janet Griffin: 'A large number of our customers are tourists. They come from England, Ireland and Spain, countries where smoking bans already in force. They know no better. "

Unfair

Patrick van As the cafes and Bruxelles Parc is in the Smoke-Free Action Breda. Colleagues who their smoking customers do not stand in the way, he grants.

"They attract customers away from pubs which do enforce the ban. That is unfair. There should be equality of competition. "

Pim the Brown of the Amsterdam cafe Brix loves that no more smoking in his cafe. The moan of fellow outlet understands he is not good.

"I find it a little childish. If countries around us can live with the smoking ban, we can do that too. "